Posts Tagged ‘David Cronenberg’

Radio Armageddon

Way back in 1968, George A. Romero’s enormously influential horror Night of the Living Dead was first unleashed on unsuspecting audiences. Its deceptively simple set-up – a group of survivors barricade themselves away from apocalyptic events, the situation deteriorates as what’s outside threatens to get in – has been used so often since (to very good, very bad and indifferent effect) that it’s now largely a genre cliché.

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All his own work?

Carl Fogaty: Any last words before I blow your brains out, you miserable prick?
Tom Stall: I should have killed you back in Philly.
Carl Fogaty: Yeah Joey, you should have.

It’s all, ahem, ‘Viggo’ for the mo – but one can but hope that a discussion of what is perhaps the best mainstream thriller since Se7en (1995) will not bring too many complaints…

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Classic Cronenberg

He can seemingly do no wrong; Canadian David Cronenberg, responsible for some of the finest examples of films that really do hit you where you live, has crossed the Atlantic to the UK for his first effort ever to be filmed completely outside his home country.

And his adoption of Viggo Mortenson, as Scorsese did with De Niro in the 1970s/80s, is proving to be perhaps the finest modern director/actor partnership – you only have to go as far back as the superlative A History of Violence (2005) to see the potential that David Cronenberg so obviously saw in the Lord of the Rings star.

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